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Welcome to Archinect's Lexicon. Architecture notoriously appropriates and invents new language – sometimes to make appeals, sometimes to fill conceptual gaps, sometimes nonsensically. But once a word is used, it's alive, and part of the conversation. We're here to take notes.bike-wash [baɪk... View full entry »

The reason I'm here and in this gallery is because bicycles in this city are being custom built and designed with love and skill and intelligence in a way that architects design buildings for people when they really get things right.

Portland is a beacon to so many other cities. It's easy for people to dismiss Holland or Denmark, but not Portland.
— bikeportland.org